Then maybe you can help me understand why UTLA is mandating anything to protect people outside of those they represent?
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Probably has more to do with the high prevalence of obesity among the senior teaching staff who control the union.
LA rule makers have an addiction to masks, and the UTLA an addiction to power. Masks are form over substance. Their mentality is masks are better than vaccines, because you can see a mask whereas you can't see a vaccine. So they push masks so it "looks" like they're doing something to fight Covid. Make the teachers get a vaccine and lets move on like most of the rest of the country and population.
It is cruel to make kids wear masks all school day. Unfortunately, some adults are so overcome by their own fear that they don't understand that. Again the height of selfishness. The community spread angle is a red herring pushed by fear mongering adults. Spread is actually less in schools than in the general public. Combine this with the fact that current overall transmission rates are so low that there is no compelling reason for kids to wear masks in school.
Scientists highlight low risk of COVID-19 spread in schools
"Yeah but", what about the Delta variant. Hear is how I feel about the Delta variant.
New Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point
U.S.—Scientists now warn that the new COVID-19 variant is, like, more contagious and also, like... other stuff about it. Some of them have brought up masks again. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.“It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named... I dunno. Who cares what his...
babylonbee.com
Remember the goal was never to eliminate Covid, the goal was always to not overwhelm our health care system. Despite the "sky is falling" predictions from a few (typically the same ones that were wrong in the past), with the level of vaccinations we're in no risk of overwhelming our hospitals with Covid patients.
So tou do you see where I’m coming from, right?
We impose rules on kids because we can, not because it makes the most sense.LA rule makers have an addiction to masks, and the UTLA an addiction to power. Masks are form over substance. Their mentality is masks are better than vaccines, because you can see a mask whereas you can't see a vaccine. So they push masks so it "looks" like they're doing something to fight Covid. Make the teachers get a vaccine and lets move on like most of the rest of the country and population.
It is cruel to make kids wear masks all school day. Unfortunately, some adults are so overcome by their own fear that they don't understand that. Again the height of selfishness. The community spread angle is a red herring pushed by fear mongering adults. Spread is actually less in schools than in the general public. Combine this with the fact that current overall transmission rates are so low that there is no compelling reason for kids to wear masks in school.
Scientists highlight low risk of COVID-19 spread in schools
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"Yeah but", what about the Delta variant. Hear is how I feel about the Delta variant.
New Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point
U.S.—Scientists now warn that the new COVID-19 variant is, like, more contagious and also, like... other stuff about it. Some of them have brought up masks again. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.“It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named... I dunno. Who cares what his...
Remember the goal was never to eliminate Covid, the goal was always to not overwhelm our health care system. Despite the "sky is falling" predictions from a few (typically the same ones that were wrong in the past), with the level of vaccinations we're in no risk of overwhelming our hospitals with Covid patients.
A vaccine mandate for 40+ would do far more than a vaccine mandate for 12-18. And, if we old folks would all get our shots, there would be less reason to talk about covid in schools.
I seem to recall the “More contagious, Deadlier variant” line being used a few times over the last 18 months.LA rule makers have an addiction to masks, and the UTLA an addiction to power. Masks are form over substance. Their mentality is masks are better than vaccines, because you can see a mask whereas you can't see a vaccine. So they push masks so it "looks" like they're doing something to fight Covid. Make the teachers get a vaccine and lets move on like most of the rest of the country and population.
It is cruel to make kids wear masks all school day. Unfortunately, some adults are so overcome by their own fear that they don't understand that. Again the height of selfishness. The community spread angle is a red herring pushed by fear mongering adults. Spread is actually less in schools than in the general public. Combine this with the fact that current overall transmission rates are so low that there is no compelling reason for kids to wear masks in school.
Scientists highlight low risk of COVID-19 spread in schools
"Yeah but", what about the Delta variant. Hear is how I feel about the Delta variant.
New Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point
U.S.—Scientists now warn that the new COVID-19 variant is, like, more contagious and also, like... other stuff about it. Some of them have brought up masks again. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.“It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named... I dunno. Who cares what his...
Remember the goal was never to eliminate Covid, the goal was always to not overwhelm our health care system. Despite the "sky is falling" predictions from a few (typically the same ones that were wrong in the past), with the level of vaccinations we're in no risk of overwhelming our hospitals with Covid patients.
That’s called abuse of power.
LA rule makers have an addiction to masks, and the UTLA an addiction to power. Masks are form over substance. Their mentality is masks are better than vaccines, because you can see a mask whereas you can't see a vaccine. So they push masks so it "looks" like they're doing something to fight Covid. Make the teachers get a vaccine and lets move on like most of the rest of the country and population.
It is cruel to make kids wear masks all school day. Unfortunately, some adults are so overcome by their own fear that they don't understand that. Again the height of selfishness. The community spread angle is a red herring pushed by fear mongering adults. Spread is actually less in schools than in the general public. Combine this with the fact that current overall transmission rates are so low that there is no compelling reason for kids to wear masks in school.
Scientists highlight low risk of COVID-19 spread in schools
"Yeah but", what about the Delta variant. Hear is how I feel about the Delta variant.
New Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point
U.S.—Scientists now warn that the new COVID-19 variant is, like, more contagious and also, like... other stuff about it. Some of them have brought up masks again. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.“It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named... I dunno. Who cares what his...
Remember the goal was never to eliminate Covid, the goal was always to not overwhelm our health care system. Despite the "sky is falling" predictions from a few (typically the same ones that were wrong in the past), with the level of vaccinations we're in no risk of overwhelming our hospitals with Covid patients.
I thought the goal was to limit as much as possible deaths due to covid.
whatithink
GOLD
People with/in power, "Abuse Power" shocker.
It used to be a community core value to put children first. Now it seems children need their own lobby because adult lobbies are putting their own interests first over our children. Not how and when this happened, but its troubling.
Not too different from cities which reserve 95 acres for golf, and 45 acres for all of youth sports put together.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Just like you've been explicitly ignoring the virus history and statistics of the last 50 years plus AND, the PCR test the only test for genetic sequencing and not the actual presence of the virus.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Makes even less sense when you explicitly ignore virus transmission over the past 50 years.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Obesity you say?
The character known as "baldref" thinks that's funny.
Bruddah IZ
DA
If you stopped explicitly ignoring the past 50 years of virus history you might retain some credibility here. At this point you're just a cherry picker.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Nearly 100% survival rate pre-vaccine. I think baldref thinks you're funny. Meep, meep.
What does that have to do with abuse of power? Or the topic of the conversation period? You gonna argue the homeless situation in CA is do in large part to a lack of housing?
Bruddah IZ
DA
The Power of Fallacies
Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts. --Henry Rosovsky
Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical— but with something missing. Their plausibility gains them political support. Only after that political support is strong enough to cause fallacious ideas to become government policies and programs are the missing or ignored factors likely to lead to "unintended consequences," a phrase often heard in the wake of economic or social policy disasters. Another phrase often heard in the wake of these disasters is, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." That is why it pays to look deeper into things that look good on the surface at the moment. Sometimes what is missing in a fallacy is simply a definition. Undefined words have a special power in politics, particularly when they invoke some principle that engages people's emotions. "Fair" is one of those undefined words which have attracted political support for policies ranging from Fair Trade laws to the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the fact that the word is undefined is an intellectual handicap, it is a huge political advantage. People with very different views on substantive issues can be unified and mobilized behind a word that papers over their differing, and sometimes even mutually contradictory, ideas. Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups— all of Economic Facts and Fallacies whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words. Fallacies abound in economic policies affecting everything from housing to international trade. Where the unintended consequences of these policies take years to unfold, the effects may not be traced back to their causes by many people. Even when the bad consequences follow closely after a given policy, many people may not connect the dots, and advocates of policies that backfire often attribute these bad consequences to something else. Sometimes they claim that the bad situation would have been even worse if it had not been for the wonderful policies they advocated.
Thomas Sowell
Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts. --Henry Rosovsky
Fallacies are not simply crazy ideas. They are usually both plausible and logical— but with something missing. Their plausibility gains them political support. Only after that political support is strong enough to cause fallacious ideas to become government policies and programs are the missing or ignored factors likely to lead to "unintended consequences," a phrase often heard in the wake of economic or social policy disasters. Another phrase often heard in the wake of these disasters is, "It seemed like a good idea at the time." That is why it pays to look deeper into things that look good on the surface at the moment. Sometimes what is missing in a fallacy is simply a definition. Undefined words have a special power in politics, particularly when they invoke some principle that engages people's emotions. "Fair" is one of those undefined words which have attracted political support for policies ranging from Fair Trade laws to the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the fact that the word is undefined is an intellectual handicap, it is a huge political advantage. People with very different views on substantive issues can be unified and mobilized behind a word that papers over their differing, and sometimes even mutually contradictory, ideas. Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups— all of Economic Facts and Fallacies whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words. Fallacies abound in economic policies affecting everything from housing to international trade. Where the unintended consequences of these policies take years to unfold, the effects may not be traced back to their causes by many people. Even when the bad consequences follow closely after a given policy, many people may not connect the dots, and advocates of policies that backfire often attribute these bad consequences to something else. Sometimes they claim that the bad situation would have been even worse if it had not been for the wonderful policies they advocated.
Thomas Sowell
Both are examples of old people in government looking out for the interests of old people, and ignoring the interests of youth.
I see….I misread/misunderstood your statement so thank you for clarifying.